Download or read book The Lord s Harvest and the Rural Church written by Kent R. Hunter and published by Beacon Hill Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading church growth expert provides insights into the unique worldview of rural settings in order to help pastors serve these congregations more effectively. Paper.
Download or read book A Harvest for God written by Michael Clay and published by LiturgyTrainingPublications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clay offers practical, step-by-step insights into implementing the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults in a way that is faithful to the rite and respectful of rural culture. Anyone who ministers in a rural or small-town catechumenate will find this book a valuable aid.
Download or read book Kingdom Disciples written by Tony Evans and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where have all the disciples gone? There is a missing force in Christianity today. It’s a critical one, and its absence has led to weak believers, disintegrating families, ineffective churches, and a decaying culture. Without it, we lack what we need to fully live as heaven’s representatives on earth. That missing force is discipleship. In Kingdom Disciples, Tony Evans outlines a simple, actionable definition of discipleship to help the church fulfill its calling. Readers will learn: What a disciple is What a disciple cares about How to be a disciple and make disciples What discipleship looks like in community What the impact of discipleship on the world can be Kingdom disciples are in short supply, and the result is a legion of powerless Christians attending powerless churches, having a powerless presence in the world. The power, authority, abundance, victory, and impact God has promised will only come about when we understand and align ourselves with His definition of discipleship. Kingdom Disciples calls believers and churches back to our primary, divinely ordained responsibility to be disciples and make disciples. Only when we take seriously this assignment will the world see heaven at work on earth. Will you accept the assignment? Kingdom Disciples isuseful as base material for a course on discipleship.
Download or read book Transforming Church in Rural America written by Shannon O'Dell and published by New Leaf Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No matter what size church you are a part of, this book will challenge your traditional thinking, force you to look beyond the status quo, and enable you to grasp a bigger vision of what God has in store for your ministry and your leadership." -Ed Young, Fellowship Church "Shannon O'Dell's passion for the rural church in America is contagious" -Craig Groeschel, LifeChurch.tv Small church buildings dotting the countryside are home to ministries that often struggle with limited attendance, no money, and little expectation that change can revitalize their future. In Transforming Church in Rural America, Pastor Shannon O'Dell shares a powerful vision of relevance, possibility, and excellence for these small churches, or for any ministry that is stuck in a "rural state of mind." The book reveals: how to generate growth through transformed lives ways to create active evangelism in your community no-cost solutions for staffing challenges, enhancing the worship experience, and inspiring volunteers Focusing on vision, attitude, leadership, and innovation, you can learn the practical strategies and biblical guidance that helped to grow a church of 31 into a multi-campus church of several thousand, with a national and global outreach. Discover effective structure and ways to cast God-given vision so others can follow and make an impact. Experience the blueprint for transforming into effective, dynamic, and thriving churches no matter where the location or how small it may be. MORE INFO
Download or read book American Harvest written by Marie Mutsuki Mockett and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic story of the American wheat harvest, the politics of food, and the culture of the Great Plains For over one hundred years, the Mockett family has owned a seven-thousand-acre wheat farm in the panhandle of Nebraska, where Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s father was raised. Mockett, who grew up in bohemian Carmel, California, with her father and her Japanese mother, knew little about farming when she inherited this land. Her father had all but forsworn it. In American Harvest, Mockett accompanies a group of evangelical Christian wheat harvesters through the heartland at the invitation of Eric Wolgemuth, the conservative farmer who has cut her family’s fields for decades. As Mockett follows Wolgemuth’s crew on the trail of ripening wheat from Texas to Idaho, they contemplate what Wolgemuth refers to as “the divide,” inadvertently peeling back layers of the American story to expose its contradictions and unhealed wounds. She joins the crew in the fields, attends church, and struggles to adapt to the rhythms of rural life, all the while continually reminded of her own status as a person who signals “not white,” but who people she encounters can’t quite categorize. American Harvest is an extraordinary evocation of the land and a thoughtful exploration of ingrained beliefs, from evangelical skepticism of evolution to cosmopolitan assumptions about food production and farming. With exquisite lyricism and humanity, this astonishing book attempts to reconcile competing versions of our national story.
Download or read book The Harvest written by T. D. Jakes and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harvest is past, the summer has ended, and we are not saved (Jeremiah 8:20).Bishop T.D. Jakes focuses on the problems plaguing the United States of America and addresses issues that many would rather not consider. Racism, though more sophisticated and attitudinal, is as prevalent as it was before the Civil Rights Bill. Homosexuality has become an acceptable alternative lifestyle. Degenerative social and moral issues result in sin and hopelessness-inside churches as well as outside. For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us... (1 Peter 4:17). God knows who is responsible for the breakdown and corrosion within our nation-the church. Until now, no one was willing to take responsibility for society's moral decay; and no one was offering any viable, long-lasting solutions. Today, Bishop Jakes shares how you can make a difference and bring in The Harvest for the glory of God.
Download or read book The Gifts of the Small Church written by Jason Byassee and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why the small- to mid-sized church remains God's best means to make disciples of Jesus Christ
Download or read book The Harvest is Plentiful written by Alan Stucky and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The landscape of rural America is changing. From the changing face of agriculture to changes in employment opportunities, to changes in family structure, small towns have under-gone massive shifts in recent decades. Especially when it comes to the church, these changes have led some to believe that rural communities are a lost cause. Alas Stucky believes that the decline of rural churches is not inevitable. There is a harvest of people who are hungry for the Gospel in our rural communities. The harvest may not look like we expect, and the church will need to re-think some fundamental assumptions and practices in order to bring in this harvest. Nevertheless, if we are willing to follow God's leading down a new path, the harvest is, indeed, plentiful."-- back cover.
Download or read book Hunters of the Harvest written by Louis Posthauer and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every church and Christian leader active in a local church in the West are aware of one of the most critical problems of the western church in the 21st century. It's the dropout believer - the disconnected Christian who no longer is a part of the local church. Hunters of the Harvest reveals a biblical strategy that is highly effective in restoring dropout believers to the body of Christ -the church. It shows how individual believers and churches can restore and reconnect dropout believers to the local church.
Download or read book The Lord s Acre written by Ralph Almon Felton and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lord s Harvest written by William Pae and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-03-16 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how the unmanifest becomes manifest? How Thoughts become Reality? Have you ever stopped to consider that some individuals effectively plan their lives much like architects draft blueprints for their projects? The Lord's Harvest helps mystics ascend to the Heavenly realms of Spirit and guides prophets through the stages of Earthly manifestation. In effect, it offers the tools needed to live life to the fullest and Highest Good through the analogy of Harvesting as offered by Jesus Christ. This Sacred Knowledge details the steps needed to gain personal acquaintance with the Universal Father-Mother Christ and become a Son or Daughter of God in manifesting Miracles through the Royal Law of Love. This book serves as the blueprint for establishing a Holy, Spiritual, and Universal Church within the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth. Blessings!
Download or read book Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church written by Michael Adam Beck and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to cultivate the extraordinary gifts of Christian community in the countryside with Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church by Tyler Kleeberger and Michael Beck. The rural church was a community’s centerpiece. The place where people gathered to worship and hear a sermon, break bread together, and support each other through the joys and struggles of life with the land. In many ways, the rural church captured a central aspect of the church’s mission: to be the guiding hand for the life of a place. Can rural congregations flourish again? Can new Christian communities succeed in rural areas? Could healthy rural churches catalyze a better future for their declining communities? This book collects stories from the diversity of rural contexts across the US. It lays out a fresh theology for rural life and offers principles for harnessing the potential of what some consider the forgotten spaces. Each chapter includes a helpful Field Exercise—questions for discussion and suggested actions for leadership teams to work through together. Chapters conclude with a Field Story illustrating how the chapter’s main ideas can work in a real church setting. Praise for Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church offers hope for the renewal that can take place in “out of the way” places. In these sacred rural places folks can experience the love of God and neighbor, undergo true healing, participate in the renewal of community, and discover a place to belong. - Daniel G. Beaudoin, Bishop, Northwestern Ohio Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church helps us to reconsider our Wesleyan roots and the gifts of our rural contexts, a seedbed packed with possibility for new communities of faith to form and flourish. - Heather M. Jallad, Fresh Expressions specialist, North Georgia Conference, UMC Beck and Kleeberger have taken a sample of the good soil that is faithful rural mission, identified the challenges, celebrated the riches, and offered us a powerful way to learn and be in partnership and connection with the gifts of God. - Ken Carter, Bishop, Florida and Western North Carolina Conferences of the United Methodist Church; co-author, Fresh Expressions: A New Kind of Methodist Church from Abingdon Press
Download or read book The Rural Church Today Tomorrow written by and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Church Big Harvest written by James R Pentz and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of mega-churches, small, rural congregations may seem irrelevant. But this book and the leaders highlighted within in, prove the invaluable impact they actually have.
Download or read book The Country Gentleman written by and published by . This book was released on 1945-07 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ploughshares and First Fruits written by Chris Thorpe and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual celebrations of Plough Sunday, Rogation and Harvest are hugely important for churches serving rural communities and are a key way for those churches to engage in mission, usually seeing congregations swell at such times. Ploughshares and First Fruits draws on the inspired work being done by one rural church to celebrate rural living throughout the year and thereby grow its congregation. As well as providing many fresh ideas for keeping the established festivals, it provides ready-to-use, participative liturgies that engage all the senses, appeal to all ages and give small churches a round-the-year resource. Included are creative liturgies for: • A pet service for the Feast of St Francis • Walking and pilgrimage • Lambing season • Riders’ Sunday • Lammas • A Summer Festival (an instant jam-jar flower festival)
Download or read book The Churchman written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
